Choose
a Volume Password

Please choose the starting password for your volume. You can change
your password as often as desired.

Choosing Strong Passwords

Be careful when you choose your passwords.

Do:

Choose long passwords. We recommend at least 10
or more characters.

Mix in upper and lower case letters, numbers and
punctuation symbols.

Don't:

Use your name, pet name or child's name.

Use some number or date readily identifiable with
your life or family members.

Use passwords shorter than 8 to 10 characters.
The more the better.

Use common words found in the dictionary unless
combined with other numbers and symbols.

Write your password on a sticky note taped to
your monitor. Yes, people do this all the time.

The Next
button will be enabled only once you've entered an acceptable password.

Strength Meter

This password strength meter operates as a guide to help you choose
strong passwords that are difficult to guess. The bar will turn green
as you choose better passwords.

This meter is only a guide. We cannot guarantee with any certainty that
specific passwords will never be guessed.

Password Dictionary - SafeHouse Professional Only

SafeHouse Professional includes a 250,000-word dictionary of common
passwords, names, places, words and phrases which are easily guessed by
intruders using commonly-available hacker dictionaries. If you choose
a password found in the SafeHouse dictionary, the meter bar will remain
all red to indicate that it's extremely vulnerable to dictionary
attacks. After all, if it's in our dictionary, you can pretty much
assume it will also be listed in the list of passwords to try by any determined
intruder.

The term "dictionary attack" refers to a common practice by
hackers of trying every word in the English dictionary, or some combination
of available dictionaries. These attacks can be performed by automated
software and run very quickly. In short, don't choose single words from
the dictionary as your password.

Password

Choose your password and then type it again in the field below. Passwords
are case sensitive, up to 255 characters.

Retype

Retype your chosen password here to make sure it's what you think it
is.

Lost Passwords

In its default configuration, SafeHouse Explorer does not include any
facility to reset lost passwords.

However, when used in combination with SafeHouse Professional Edition,
there is an ability for system administrators to reset lost SafeHouse
volume passwords, but only
if this feature was enabled prior to creating your volume. Use of the
password management features requires a license for SafeHouse Professional
Edition. Please see the Administrator's Guide in the SafeHouse
Professional Edition user's manual for more information.

Please
do not call us when you lose your password. We
have absolutely no ability to recover lost passwords.